Monthly Archives: February 2010

jQuery Slideshow Plugin Update

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I have finally found a few spare minutes to refactor the Google Code Project I started for my jQuery plugin last year. While I still am far from where I want to be with it, I have managed to set the plugin into a fully OOP codebase and add in events and the capability for custom handlers on those events. My hope is that people will now be able to find a bit more usability to the slideshow, since it is fully customizable. Feel free to swing by my Google Code page and let me know thoughts or ideas on ways to improve the slideshow as it evolves.

Introduction to Manual Compiling with Flex SDK

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So, many of you have sent me emails or asked me in person about how, exactly, to get started playing with the Flex SDK without having to pour any money into unnecessary resources or IDEs. First, let me say that purchasing and using Flex Builder will be one of the best investments you can make in your Flex development learning, but yes, you can indeed download the SDK free of charge and manually compile AS3 and AIR applications. This will be a very simple post dealing with just how this can be done. While there are many, many, many details we could approach, I want to tackle this issue in its simplest form and hopefully get people on the ground running within minutes of reading this post. Please note that this will be written for Windows users, though I highly recommend people set up a Linux environment and play with the command line tools there as well, if possible.
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